BMP |Four young assassins shot dead another militant labor leader in the Calabarzon area past eight this morning. Killed on the spot was Andrew “Bok” Iñoza, union president, for 11 years now, of Alaska Milk in San Pedro Laguna.

JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. | MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22 — Just before leaving office, the administration of President Vicente Fox has quietly put out a voluminous report that for the first time states unequivocally that past governments carried out a covert campaign of murder and torture against dissidents and guerrillas from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. more...0 Comments

Boston Con Oaxaca | In Boston, as in seventeen US cities, people took direct action Monday in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca. Actions included a banner drop, a flag hoisting, popular education, popular assembly, disruption of the corporate media, damaged windows on the Mexican consulate, and a street march and roving blockade of traffic on some of Boston's busiest streets.
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Fredy Munoz | "Colleagues and friends, from within this enclosed space, I send my message of thanks to all of you who continue to stake life and freedom in this vital profession, and in everyone else who engages with fervent struggle.

It is so ironic that while the judicial officers opened a file on me for charges very removed from the reality of my twelve years as a journalist, Colombian television transmitted a homage on the sacrificed Jaime Garzón, a journalist whose work aroused the rage and intolerance of a stubborn, detrimental authority, entrenched in the institutionality of the country. "
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Jackie Northam | Snip: "They relied instead on secret evidence that was classified," Denbeaux says. "And the government's procedure was, anything in that secret evidence was presumed to be valuable and valid. And then the detainee was given the opportunity to rebut the secret evidence. But he was never told what the secret evidence was."
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Ben Seattle (reposted by Marik) | The industrial revolution created the modern proletariat. The revolution in communications will allow this proletariat to make itself conscious and will lead to the overthrow of the system of bourgeois rule.

For the first time in history, the majority of suffering humanity will have access to a clear, accurate and comprehensive class-based picture of what is wrong with the world and how to coordinate their actions in order to end bourgeois rule and usher in a world without hunger, privation or war.

As decade rolls after decade, information war will transform the terrain of the class struggle -- including world culture, world politics and the left ecosystem which gives birth to revolutionary organizations.

These nine theses are the second installment of "Seventeen Theses on the Destiny of the Revolution in Communications and the Concept of Workers' Rule".

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Anu Bonobo | Each year, as part of the massive peace rally at the gates of Fort Benning, protesters stage a funeral procession to honor the dead, the victims of violent repression in Central and South America.

With this year's event coming so soon after Brad Will's tragic death, I felt compelled to bring his memory with me to the doors of death.
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Clark Merrefield | Last night, the Brecht Forum sponsored an information session titled Holding Israel Accountable: The Case for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). With hostility between Israel and Palestine showing little or no sign of attenuating, lawyer and human rights activist Issa Mikel and Riham Barghouti, former Director of Public Relations at Birzeit University in Palestine, presented a non-violent alternative to combating what they perceive to be war crimes committed by Israel against Palestine.
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Casey L. | The ACLU has obtained documents that the Department of Defense collected as part of its Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) program. They include a report from a Special Agent of the Federal Protective Service of the Department of Homeland Security based on an email received apparently via a listserv outlining plans for a March 19, 2005, protests against New York City military recruitment centers.
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Patty Heffley | The voters chose transparency, financial responsibility and oversight candidates instead of a nasty, negative, race-baiting, disingenuous propaganda slate. The independent candidates won 7 out of 12 seats in this election. Even with the use of You Tube, Local Access TV, targeted websites and producers lists and endorsements by the labor show host and others, that dog didn't hunt.
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